• New Whitepaper: The Total Cost of (Non) Ownership of a NoSQL Database Service

    Updated: 2012-03-30 14:30:55
    We have received tremendous positive feedback from customers and partners since we launched Amazon DynamoDB two months ago. Amazon DynamoDB enables customers to offload the administrative burden of operating and scaling a highly available distributed database cluster while only paying...

  • Live Streaming with Amazon CloudFront & Flash Media Server 4.5

    Updated: 2012-03-30 01:04:13
    Today, Nihar Bihani of the Amazon CloudFront team is back again, with another guest post. -- Jeff; Today, I’d like to tell you about two different ways we’ve improved our live streaming solution. But before I dive into what’s changing,...

  • Amazon DynamoDB and the AWS SDK for .NET

    Updated: 2012-03-30 00:12:12
    Pavel Safronov, a developer on our SDK and Tools team, sent the following guest post my way! -- Jeff; The AWS SDK for .NET provides a simple client for our new service, Amazon DynamoDB. This client gives you a straight-forward...

  • The 1000 Genomes Project

    Updated: 2012-03-29 13:04:28
    We're very pleased to welcome the 1000 Genomes Project data to Amazon S3. The original human genome project was a huge undertaking. It aimed to identify every letter of our genetic code, 3 billion DNA bases in total, to help...

  • Updated Amazon Linux AMI (2012.03) Now Available

    Updated: 2012-03-28 23:30:29
    We've just released version 2012.03 of the Amazon Linux AMI. Coming six months after our previous major release, this version of the AMI is loaded with new features that EC2 users will enjoy. One of our goals for this release...

  • AWS Direct Connect Update & Survey

    Updated: 2012-03-28 14:03:20
    AWS Direct Connect has grown to six locations worldwide since our initial launch in August 2011. Customers are using it to work with large data sets, power applications that use real-time data feeds and build hybrid environments that integrate AWS...

  • CloudSpokes Coding Challenge - Build an EC2 Spot Instance Tool

    Updated: 2012-03-27 23:41:47
    There's a new coding challenge on CloudSpokes with a top prize of $2000 and other prizes ranging from $1000 to $100. The goal: Create tools to help more people to make use of Amazon EC2 Spot Instances! This is an...

  • Cost Savings in the Cloud - foursquare and Global Blue

    Updated: 2012-03-23 15:34:30
    We’ve received great feedback from customers on the recent AWS price reductions. I’ve personally received a number of great stories from customers who are using AWS to reduce the cost of running their business. We’ve written up two of these...

  • Multi-Region Latency Based Routing now Available for AWS

    Updated: 2012-03-22 00:06:48
    The Amazon Web Services are now available in an ever-expanding series of locations. You've asked us to make it easier to build applications that span multiple AWS regions and we are happy to oblige. Today I'm pleased to announce that...

  • New AMI Catalog and New AMI Launch Button Are Now Available

    Updated: 2012-03-21 16:21:33
    A few days ago we launched a simple, yet very important new feature on our AWS website: the self-service AWS AMI catalog. As you know, AMIs are disk images that contain a pre-configured operating system and virtual application software, and...

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